From zero to one: A perspective on citing

Yong Huang, Yi Bu, Ying Ding and Wei Lu

Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, 2019, vol. 70, issue 10, 1098-1107

Abstract: This article investigates the lengths of time that publications with different numbers of citations take to receive their first citation (the beginning stage), and then compares the lengths of time to receive two or more citations after receiving the first citation (the accumulative stage) in the field of computer science. We find that in the beginning stage, that is, from zero to one citation, high‐, medium‐, and low‐cited publications do not obviously exhibit different lengths of time. However, in the accumulative stage, that is, from one to N citations, highly cited publications begin to receive citations much more rapidly than medium‐ and low‐cited publications. Moreover, as N increases, the difference in receiving new citations among high‐, medium‐, and low‐cited publications increases quite significantly.

Date: 2019
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